Top 33 Noelle Stevenson Quotes

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I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort

I didn’t get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident.
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I do more research about ‘Lumberjanes’ than I did for a story of medieval knights.
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‘Runaways’ was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I’m hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.
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I’ve always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that’s kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story.
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I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that’s been valued at all.
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I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and ‘Nimona’ just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.
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I think my lack of ‘Pokemon’ knowledge and complete confusion at the descriptions makes people think I’m adorable, like a lost baby duckling or your grandmother trying to use an iPad.
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‘Nimona’ was originally a vague idea I had when I was in high school, when I was just getting into shapeshifting characters. It was a straightforward superhero story at the time. Nimona was named Nightshade, and she had an eyepatch for some reason. There was nothing really special about it, though.
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I’m very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it’s also fun to play in other people’s playgrounds!
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It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female readership. It was just kind of this free-for-all that was achieving something amazing with creativity. That was where I got my start.
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I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn’t associate myself with the girl characters.
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Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn’t really become real to me until I draw them.
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I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that’s certainly not untrue.
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I’ve always liked shape-shifter characters. I gravitated towards characters like Mystique from ‘X-Men,’ Zam Wesell from ‘Star Wars,’ and Tonks from ‘Harry Potter.’
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I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what’s going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor.
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‘She-Ra’ was ahead of its time.
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I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn’t really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest.
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Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn’t degrade them.
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We can make this industry and this environment and comic book shops and comic book conventions and comic books themselves, we can make them a thing that is accessible to everybody so that nobody feels unwelcome, and nobody feels like this isn’t their place.
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Support the female voice in all its forms. Support other female creators and work to make an environment that is inclusive and allows female-led projects to thrive organically.
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There are some things that are more appropriate for different audiences. But the goal with all ages is to create comics that anyone can read, that don’t talk down to kids. Kids can handle a lot more than people think.
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I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful.
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It seems like everyone in my peer group has more ‘Pokemon’ knowledge than I do.
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I’ve always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but ‘Nimona’ felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, ‘OK, I’m really gonna do this.’
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I swear slightly more when there aren’t children around, but not that much.
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I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there.
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The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I became more involved in comics, I started going more and more, usually to support my friends or lady-friendly comics.
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I really liked Quentin Blake, who did all of Roald Dahl’s stuff. I don’t think I really got Quentin Blake as a kid, but as I grew older, I really appreciated the kind of knowledge and the skill that went into those seemingly effortless drawings, and I really wanted to capture some of that in my own work.
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I’ve been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing.
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It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.
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‘Winnie the Pooh’s Grand Adventure’ – the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him – I cried.
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Social media is basically the entire reason I have a ca

Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for ‘Nimona’ came because I was active on Tumblr.
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The first movie I saw was ‘Prince of Egypt’ – that was the first movie I saw in theaters.
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